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The 1975 have won hoardes of devoted fans since their emergence in 2012. Many of these fans have been young women, who admire the foppish locks and roguish charm of the Mancunian pop rock band's frontman Matthew Healy as much as their Eighties-indebted, singalong songs of youth and young passions.

As a result, The 1975 have struggled to win critical acclaim. In fact, they've been roundly mocked - something they've gamely taken on in the video for The Sound, in which they stand in a box while sneering arts critics and hipsters mouth the derisive statements their two ludicrously successful number one albums and widely sold out yours have earned them.

It's easy to dismiss Healy and co. The man played the muddiest Glastonbury in years in a white suit, and says things like, "I'm going to put sunglasses on now for practical reasons and also because of the rock star thing. Yeah? Rock star?" It, along with the clutching of an ostentatiously inhaled cigarette, earns him screams from his fans, and eyerolls from the sceptical.

Matthew Healy of The 1975 at Glastonbury

But The 1975's breezy, lightweight pop turned out to be a very good fit for The Other Stage at dinner time. Couples of all ages were dancing, arms clasped around each other, middle-aged men were forcing their teenage daughters to take selfies with them. A double rainbow spread across the whole site. It was all rather lovely, really.

And credit to Healy, who did what plenty of other millennial performers have failed to do at Glastonbury this weekend and properly stand up for his generation in wake of Brexit.

Matthew Healy of The 1975 at GlastonburyCredit:
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"I feel like I've got a responsibility to say something," he said, with all the ego of a future, slightly embarrassing rock star, "What I feel, what a lot of young people feel, is that there's a sentiment among older people who have voted in a future that we don't f------ want."

From under that rainbow, as policemen proposed to each other on the streets of London for Pride, weeks after men were killed for having the temerity to express themselves in a gay club, he summed up his generation with more sincerity than any of his pop star posturing on stage. "Glastonbury stands for everything our generation wants - compassion, social responsibility, community, loving each other."

This was a damn sight more interesting than the band's extended saxophone solos - and deservedly won the biggest cheers of the set.